DuPage County Cerebral Palsy Attorney

If your child has suffered a cerebral palsy brain injury during birth, it is important to explore your legal options. While some cases of cerebral palsy are unavoidable, others are the result of medical malpractice. Victims have the right to pursue financial compensation for the losses they have suffered.

At Cirignani Heller & Harman, LLP, we have handled numerous birth injury lawsuits for clients from DuPage County, Illinois, and throughout the surrounding region. We are focused exclusively on medical malpractice law and are equipped to help you meet your most critical legal objectives.

Contact us today online or by telephone at 312-346-8700 or 866-346-8700 to speak with a knowledgeable DuPage County, Illinois, birth injury attorney. We represent clients from Aurora, Naperville, Wheaton and throughout the surrounding areas.

Cerebral Palsy and Medical Negligence

Handling a complex medical malpractice case involving cerebral palsy and other birth injuries calls for both legal and medical knowledge. Our firm offers clients both, as two of our attorneys are also licensed physicians, and a third lawyer is a board-certified respiratory therapist.

When faced with a birth injury such as cerebral palsy, it is important to know:

The cause of the injury: Was the birth injury caused by failure to monitor the baby? Was it caused by failure to promptly perform a C-section?

The damages: How will this injury affect your child in the short-term and long-term? How much money will you need to pay for medical bills, physical therapy, adaptive equipment and other costs?

As experienced medical malpractice attorneys, we explore these questions every day. We will carefully review all aspects of your case, looking for evidence in medical records, fetal monitoring strips and other sources to determine the cause of the injury. We will put our skill and resources to work for you, to help you get the justice and compensation you deserve and need.

Let Us Help You

If your child has suffered a cerebral palsy birth injury, we are here to stand up for your rights. Contact us today online or by telephone at 312-346-8700 or 866-346-8700 to speak with an experienced DuPage County cerebral palsy lawyer. We offer free initial consultations and bill on a contingent fee basis — you won’t have to pay us attorney fees unless we win compensation in your case.

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OUR CASE RESULTS

Cirignani, Heller & Harman, LLP, knows medical malpractice cases from every angle. We are known for securing substantial settlements and trial verdicts.

Sometimes women have uncontrolled bleeding immediately after delivering a child. If left untreated, the woman can die. It is, therefore, a condition that the physicians must watch for and treat immediately. In this case, a young woman had uncontrolled bleeding after delivering her first child. Although she was in the hospital, her signs of distress went unnoticed. She bled for some time and, as a result, she suffered severe brain damage.

Pap smears and mammograms are two routine and regular tests ordered to identify cancer in its early stages-when it is curable. When a doctor or hospital misreads pap smears or mammograms, the result can be catastrophic. In this case, a young mother of four children had a routine pap smear that was misread. She subsequently died after suffering a long, painful course with cervical cancer.

One of the known risks of abdominal surgery is infection, and like all infections, the earlier the treatment the better the outcome. A man presented to the emergency room a week and a half after a colostomy closure surgery. When the man presented to the emergency room, he had obvious signs of infection and an abdominal problem that would require surgery. There was an initial delay in calling for a surgeon. Then, a sequence of surgeons had to be called before any surgeon agreed to come to the hospital to operate on the man. As a result, there was a delay of over eight hours in starting the emergency operation which was needed to treat the infection and its cause. Due to the delay, the infection spread and the patient did not survive.

After a woman goes into labor, doctors will monitor the baby's heart rate. This is called fetal heart rate monitoring. If the baby gets in trouble during labor-has trouble getting oxygen-the baby's heart rate will change. Doctors and nurses are trained to watch for these changes. If these changes are serious and persistent, they are required to get the baby out, usually by caesarean section as quickly as possible. In this case, the baby began to show signs of distress-she was being deprived of oxygen-but these signs were missed, delaying the baby's delivery. As a result, the baby was deprived of oxygen and suffered severe brain injury. Brain injuries like this are called, cerebral palsy.

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At Cirignani Heller & Harman, LLP, we represent Illinois clients in Chicago and throughout Cook County, including the cities of Cicero, Elgin, Schaumburg, Oak Park, Maywood, Berwyn, Elmhurst, Evanston, Skokie, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights, Palatine and Hoffman Estates. We also help clients in DuPage County, Kane County, Lake County, McHenry County, Will County and Winnebago County.